Call fo Papers. IEEE PIMRC'11 Conference!

We have received a lot of requests for extension especially from Japan. Our hearts and feelings are with those suffering from the earthquake and tsunami. We have agreed to give another chance to authors, and have extended the deadline to April 30, which is going to be a firm deadline.

IEEE PIMRC'11 Call for Papers

The 22nd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC 2011) will be held in The Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, Canada. Toronto is about an hour and half away from Niagara Falls, and Niagara‐on‐the‐lake, a renowned wine country, and about two hours away from Thousand Islands. Toronto is an intimate metropolis featuring the best the world has to offer in dining, shopping, creativity, architecture, entertainment and sports. Toronto has over 7,000 restaurants, is the world’s third largest center for live theatre, and is one of the world’s great shopping destinations. PIMRC 2011 will overlap with the Toronto International Film Festival, which will give an opportunity to the attendees to also enjoy this major event.

The symposium program will include a broad range of topics from physical layer to emerging application technologies. The following is a preliminary list of the conference tracks:

Tracks:
• Wide Area Cellular Communications (WACC)
• Autonomous Infrastructure Deployment (AIC)
• Local and Personal Area Networks (LPAN)
• Security and Localization (SL)
• Intelligent Transportation Networks (ITN)
• Wireless Networks and Health Care (WNHC)
• Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management (CRSM)

Important dates:
Paper submission: Acceptance of notification: Final manuscript due:	April 30, 2011 (Firm Deadline) To start June 17th, 2011 July 15th, 2011

All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (10‐point font) including figures.

PDF version of the call is available here.

Submission to Tracks

IEEE PIMRC 2011 has moved away from the traditional horizontal track organization into a vertical track definition to emphasize the fact that segregated layering concept does not completely apply in practice. Today we witness a tighter interaction between different layers to provide service to applications. The conventional layering breakdown is however present in the tracks as per the following table.

	WACC	AID	LPAN	SL	ITN	WNHC	CRSM
Services	11	21	31	41	51	61	71
Networking	12	22	32	42	52	62	72
Access	13	23	33	43	53	63	73
Physical	14	24	34	44	54	64	74

The following tables give a detailed description of each layer for the tracks. We acknowledge that the list is not comprehensive and may not be completely thorough since it is very difficult, if not impossible, to assign topics to layers. Authors should use their own judgment in choosing tracks for their paper.

Wide Area Cellular Communications (WACC)
11	Analysis, simulation and performance evaluation, Field tests and measurements, New applications and their impact on cellular networks, Quality of Service, Signaling, Multimedia services, Traffic Modeling
12	Multi-hop networking, Routing, Congestion and admission control, Distributed and relay assisted communications, Bandwidth allocation issues Wireless IP and Mobility, Network Coding
13	Multiple access techniques (CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA), Multi-user and cooperative communications, Cross-layer design and management, Radio resource management and interference control, Standardization and system evolution, scheduling
14	Antennas and propagation, Modulation, coding and diversity techniques, MIMO and smart antenna communications, Channel modeling, estimation and equalization, Time and frequency synchronization techniques, Power-efficient protocols

Autonomous Infrastructure Deployment (AIC)
21	Heterogeneous Networks, Femtocell Networks, Self-managed networks Organic network evolution, User deployed infrastructure, RF plug-and-play devices, Security and Privacy Issues in Autonomous Infrastructure Deployment
22	Self configuration and optimization, Seamless micro/macro cell networks QoS Provisioning and Management, 3G/LTE autonomic evolution, Architectures for Autonomous Infrastructure Deployment
23	MAC Protocols for Autonomous Infrastructure Deployment, Interference mitigation and avoidance, Resource allocation techniques, Cross-layer Design and Interactions
24	Energy Saving and Power Control Protocols New approaches to standardization of the air interface Physical Layer Design for Autonomous Infrastructure Deployment

Local and Personal Area Networks (LPAN)
31	Emerging applications of WLAN/WPAN, WLAN/WPAN implementation and experimental testbeds, Security in WLAN/WPAN, Gaming a
32	Mobility modeling and management, Relaying and cooperative communication, Integration between WLAN/WPAN and wide area networks, WLAN/WPAN admission control, Ad hoc networking
33	Wireless medium access control, WLAN/WPAN resource management and optimization, Wireless logical link control, Standardization and new access protocols, Multihop and Mesh networking
34	Physical layer design for WLAN/WPAN, Hardware design for WLAN/WPAN, Energy efficient solutions, Synchronization, Channel Modeling, MIMO and high bit rate communication, Interference mitigation

Security and Localization (SL)
41	Business Models for Localization and Tracking, Authentication and Authorization, Anonymization and Privacy in Communication Networks, Key Distribution and Management, Information Hiding and Watermarking, Security and Privacy of Localization and Tracking
42	Network Security Metrics and Performance Evaluation, Computer and Network Forensics, Wireless (Ad hoc, Sensor, Mesh, Wi-Fi, WiMax) Network Security
43	Cross-layer Methods for Enhancing Security, Cooperative Localization, Hybrid and Opportunistic Localization, Security for RFID and SCADA Systems, WiFi and Probabilistic Localization, RFID and Real Time Location Systems Ultra Wideband (UWB) Ranging
44	Anti-Jamming techniques and wireless security, Direction of Arrival Estimation, GPS, A-GPS, and D-GPS, Intrusion Detection, Localization, and Avoidance, Inertial Navigation & Dead Reckoning

Intelligent Transportation Networks (ITN)
51	Security and Privacy in Transportation Networks, Policy and Planning for Intelligent Transportation Networks, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Telematics, Vehicular Sensor Networks
52	Vehicle Infrastructure Integration, Transportation Networked Cyber-Physical Systems, Multi-Modal Networking, Safety Packets and Short Messaging, Cellular Network, TCP/IP in vehicular network, Routing
53	Vehicular Network MAC design for safety and non-safety applications, Scheduling, Multihop communication in vehicular networks, quality of service, multichannel communication
54	RF technologies and Wireless Communications for ITS, Field operational testing and test beds, Interference mitigation, Channel models, Synchronization, MIMO and antennas in vehicular networks

Wireless Networks and Health Care (WNHC)
61	Human-Machine Interface for Health & Well-being, Smart Pills & In-body Positioning Systems, Telemedicine & Remote Monitoring, Patient Tracking and Location Systems for Hospitals
62	Mobile Patient Monitoring Devices and Systems, Intelligent Middleware for Medical Device Interoperability, Wireless Medical Devices Interoperability & Co-existence, Human Body Communication
63	Wireless Technologies for Pervasive Healthcare, Wireless Technologies for Elderly Care, Wireless Technologies for Future Operating Room, Protocols, Architecture and Innovative Applications for Body Area Networks, Usability for Personal Medical Devices
64	Smart Algorithms for Personal Heath Monitoring, Energy Efficient PHY, MAC for Body Area Networks, Antennas for Wearable or Implantable Medical Sensors, Propagation and Channel Measurement & Modeling for Body Area Networks, Co-existence and Interference Analysis for Wireless Medical Devices, Smart textiles for wearable BAN, RF Interference Analysis & Mitigation for Body Area Networks, Energy Harvesting for Wearable or Implantable Medical Sensors, Security Protocols for Low Power Wearable/Implantable Medical Sensors

Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management (CRSM)
71	Bio-inspired/intelligent algorithms for autonomic and distributed cognitive radio networks, Security and robustness of cognitive spectrum-agile networks, Green/energy-aware algorithms/protocols for cognitive communications and networking, Applications and services based on cognitive radios and networks, Economic models for spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networks
72	Cognitive cellular, WiFi, sensor, femtocell, relay, cooperative networks, routing protocols for dynamic spectrum access and spectrum mobility, Fundamental challenges, issues, and performance limits for cognitive radios and dynamic spectrum access networks
73	Cognitive channel access/selection, radio resource management, Cross-layer optimization of cognitive radio networks, Spectrum awareness and cognition-based coexistence in heterogeneous wireless networks
74	Measurements and statistical modeling of spectrum usage, Signal processing algorithms for spectrum sensing and interference avoidance/mitigation, Cognitive radio test-beds and hardware prototypes